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The Accelerating Asia team is growing and we are on the hunt for a Program Manager! We’re looking for someone who is a fast learner, can take initiative and is passionate about building the program community and helping startups achieve their goals.

With such growth and upskilling over the coming years, we will see adept employees of these firms venturing out on their own to propagate future tech giants. Much like the multiples generated by the PayPal founding team diaspora. The aforementioned is creating a shortage in the available domestic supply of skills which is being supplemented by remote workers and immigration without sufficient avail. This naturally creates opportunities for savvy minds to innovate on the delivery of recruitment, human resource management, and for this post, education…

It seems like every week a new accelerator program is opening, yet if you ask around just as many seem to be closing their doors. Considering all of this and contemplating our career moves after muru-D, Amra Naidoo (who ran Operations and Marketing for muru-D) and I realized that there is a “third way” to operate a startup accelerator, and together we decided that we’re going to run with it…

I decided to start working at Accelerating Asia as a way to keep myself busy during the summer. I completed by IB final exams in May, as well as Grade 12. I was worried that during the period of time between finishing school and starting university, I would become lazy, lose passion and focus…

It is common for a startup to atrophy based on slow or improper decision making. To understand why they atrophy you need only look at why incumbent businesses fail to disrupt. Slower more conservative decisions. Incumbents often have smart and proficient minds like startups, yet they're constrained to the self-inflicted pace of progress in the cube farm…

A year ago, in the aftermath of one of the top startup accelerator programs in the region closing down, I published an article about the need to reinvent the startup accelerator model in Southeast Asia. It seemed to hit a nerve. The article was republished across various media, and parts were later used in a Singapore Business Review piece about the ‘death’ of these programs in Singapore…

Are you a master at working under tight deadlines? Do messy spreadsheets and disorganized planning drive you crazy? Are you an Administrative wizard? If you say yes to any of these, then this role might just be perfect for you! Accelerating Asia is currently recruiting for an Admin Executive to support our daily operations and administrative tasks, and you could be the one that we’ve been searching for.

Are you a current university student or a recent graduate looking for an insightful and fun internship experience? Are you that special someone who is hungry to learn and ready to hit the ground running? Are you fearless and not afraid of a challenge? We’re hiring for an almighty intern to join our dedicated team and you could be the perfect candidate!